31
L. P. Harvey, «The Metrical Irregularity of the CMC», BHS, 40 (1963), 137-43; A. D. Deyermond, «The Singer of Tales and Mediaeval Spanish Epic», BHS, 42 (1965), 1-8, and cf. Epic Poetry and the Clergy. Studies on the Mocedades de Rodrigo (London: Tamesis, 1969), 54-7 and 198-9.
32
I am grateful to Mrs. Margaret Chaplin, who is engaged on a study of formulaic style in the medieval Spanish epic, for allowing me to cite her tentative findings on this point.
33
Cf. the warning given by Arthur K. Moore. «Medieval English Literature and the Question of Unity», MP, 65 (1967-8), 285-300, at p. 287.
34
This paper was read to the Old Spanish section of the MLA in December 1967. I should like to repeat here the thanks which I then expressed to the MLA for doing me the honour of inviting me to read a paper as a guest. The Chairman of the session was Professor Thomas R. Hart, and the other paper was read by Professor Edmund de Chasca (it has been published, in a revised form, as «Toward a Redefinition of Epic Formula in the Light of the CMC» HR, 38 [1970], 251-63). I was particularly grateful to be thus associated with two distinguished Cid scholars.
The paper is printed substantially as delivered, but I have inserted footnotes and some additional quotations, and have slightly amplified two points in the conclusion which were uncomfortably compressed. I have also taken account of comments made when I read the paper to a seminar at the University of Oregon, and to the Oxford Medieval Society. A full revision of the paper would end as a small book -a book which I hope in due course to write.